Apr 3, 2015 - Office Lens is finally available for iOS and Android. OS X, Windows Phone, iOS, and Android with all of their documents and settings synced. Office 2013 for mac free download - Office for Mac Home and Business 2011, SysTools MAC Office 365 Backup, Collected for Mac, and many more programs Navigation open search.

Apple Notes is great but is sorely missing Optical Character Recognition, or OCR, for scanned documents. This enables you to search for words inside scanned documents. Perhaps we'll see that in a future release. In the meanwhile, using Office Lens, you can scan documents, whiteboards, and business cards today on your iPhone or iPad and make them fully searchable. Unfortunately, you can't bring the searchable documents into Apple Notes, but if you use an application like Microsoft OneNote, you can search the entire contents of your scanned items - it can even search your handwritten notes. In this tip, I show you the basics of using Office Lens and OneNote. The full tutorial covers • Introduction • Scanning Documents • Scanning Business Cards App Store Links: Show Links.

Thanks Don, this sounds like a really useful for 'on the road' use (maybe quick paper receipts and the like). But for regular paperwork, I strongly recommend buying a Fujitsu ScanSnap document scanner, if you can justify the expense. They do an A4 page in seconds, and stacks of pages in minutes, into either PDF or JPG format. And importantly, store them straight into decent file sizes (even the highest quality is not multiple MB-per-page, that you'd typically get from a flatbed scanner!). The newer iX500 wireless (optionally wired) model is superb, and easily the the best one to go for if you can afford it at ~£350 (I've the older S1500M wired-only model, which still works 6+ years since originally buying it!). Easily one of the best tech investments I've made, as I can see it lasting several more years to come, and has literally saved me tens of hours over the years for those paper docs that come in, when you cannot get digital versions straight from the source (still too many things are just not digital!).

OneNote for iOS Office Lens is the new camera built into OneNote for iPad or iPhone that lets you take pictures of whiteboards or printed documents, then enhances your photo by cropping, sharpening, and straightening it, so it looks almost like a scanned image. Your picture is added to your note so you can retrieve it later. To use Office Lens, follow these steps: • Create a note or open an existing one, then tap on the note in which you want to insert an image.

• On your iPad, tap Insert, and then tap Camera. On your iPhone, tap the Camera icon on the ribbon above the keyboard.

• Choose a picture taking mode: WHITEBOARD, PHOTO, and DOCUMENT, and take your picture. • Office Lens will automatically crop your picture, but you can change the cropped image by clicking and dragging the circles to change the crop. • When you’re finished tap and Office Lens will add the photo to your note.